Date and time
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location
King Hall D-4044
Description
Department of Philosophy presents a special lecture by
Tom Holden
Professor and Department Chair, UCSB
Hume on Modal Discourse
Hume regards the ‘absolute’ necessity attending demonstrable truths as simply an expression of our imaginative blocks, and thereby avoids any commitment to a mind-independent and extra-empirical domain of absolute modal properties and facts. I develop this interpretation of Hume’s metaphysics of absolute modality, situate it against a wider understanding of Hume’s philosophy of language, and defend it against some recent objections.
Reception immediately following. Engineering & Technology, A-420